pocket billiards

pocket billiards

pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

See pool².

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pocket billiards

n (functioning as singular) Billiards

1. (Group Games / Billiards & Snooker) another name for pool² [5]

2. (Group Games / Billiards & Snooker) any game played on a table in which the object is to pocket the balls, esp snooker and pool

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

pocket billiards - any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets pool table game - a game that is played on a table break - the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool carom, cannon - a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other masse, masse shot - a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball miscue - a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball snooker - a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball